Google and yabb boards

[PHPTALK.com]

Hi.

There is something that i wanted to share my opinions and wondering your comments.

phptalk.com has been launched onn April 7th. Now i see Google referers as of July 1st. There is an increase in traffic from Google to phptalk.com board.

BUT i just do an investigation and see that GOOGLE DO NOT INDEX messages although they do normally.

All referers are for category indexes and topic indexes. I am not sure but using ";" instead of "&" woulb be a problem for robots to index yabb forums?

Example:

Google indexes http://talk.phptalk.com/index.php?board=3 page

 but not

http://talk.phptalk.com/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=331

which is just 1 click away from above page.



I have designed several database related sites and never encounter with such problem before.

Although i know that search motors indexes HTML OUTPUT of PHP FILES, i am not sure what is going in this case.


Any comments? Or anyone knows something about that?


Thanks.

[groundup]

change the boardurl to a relative url, notification emails will be messed up but you have to make a mod for that

there is a thread about this in this board.  Just do some searching

[PHPTALK.com]

OK i found!!!

http://www.yabb.info/community/index.php?board=142;action=display;threadid=8725;start=0

which states i am right. There is a little problem about that.

[PHPTALK.com]

Solution:

Modify Settings.php and set

$boardurl = "";          

And then locate sendmail functions in

profile.php
posts.php
register.php
sendtopic.php

and look at message body texyts and modify

$cgi ----> http://yourdomain.com/path/$cgi
$scripturl ----> http://yourdomain.com/path/index.php

Thats all.

I did it. It works on www.phptalk.com (not on talk.phptalk.com)



NOT a MOD but quick fix for who are familiar with php files.

[sylvester]

I made 2 new variables ($mailurl & $mailurl2), $mailurl is the old $scripturl, and $mailurl2 is the old $cgi. I replaced those variables in Profile.php,SendTopic.php,Register.php and Post.php (in the function sendmail).


BTW: It's iZi to do this

[Ben_S]

I changed mine the day I made that post and Joseph replied... google doesnt seem to have indexed me any futher yet though...
Might just be taking its time

[groundup]

or maybe we need to try something different

Would be nice to get this made as a mod none the less.

has anyone spoken with someone from google about getting the site indexed?

[sylvester]

I changed mine the day I made that post and Joseph replied... google doesnt seem to have indexed me any futher yet though...
Might just be taking its time

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=nl&querytime=Fx2WjB&q=chelloo
some boards of the Chello Underground Forum are listed.

[Ben_S]

listing of borads if fine.. just doesnt seem to archive messages...

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=chat&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=redandwhitekop.com&safe=off